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acquainted with your wishes, I shall be happy, as far as lies in my power, 

 to satisfy them. I may mention before I conclude, that I picked up from 

 this deposit the Nucula pectinata, Trochus linearis, and the unknown 

 cardiform bivalve as delineated in Mantell's Geology of Sussex, tab. xviii. 

 and xix. 



Note by the Editor. 



This is one of those discoveries which, as Sir J. Herschell remarked 

 regarding that of the raised beach at Cherra Ponji, is calculated to 

 produce a powerful effect in exciting further inquiry. It would be 

 desirable to know the elevation of the place where the fossils have been 

 found, the topography and limits of the limestone, and other beds with 

 which it is associated, whether it occurs in continuous or detached 

 masses, the direction of the beds, their thickness, the rocks on which 

 they rest, whether any and what fossils are found in them — the over- 

 lying beds, and their fossils if any. We do not think the inquiry could 

 be in better hands, and we shall be happy to aiford all the assistance in 

 our power in the way of advice, and in the examination of any 

 of the fossils with which we may be favoured ; we are looking with 

 anxiety for the arrival of the specimens, which we hope to receive in 

 time to report upon in our next number. 



Extract of a letter from Assistant Surgeon Hinton. 



Kyouk Phyoo, 4th February, 1 840. 



I have the pleasure of sending you specimens of coal, which from 

 their apparent extreme purity may be worthy of an analysis. 



I send you these as the most crystalline of a number of specimens 

 procured in the immediate vicinity of this station. 



About three miles to the South-westward of the Northernmost part 

 of the island of Ramree are two islands, connected to each other and the 

 main land by ridges of sandstone rock, visible at low water, the largest 

 and outermost is called Saddle island, the other is named Cap island; 

 both of them are chiefly composed of sandstone of different degrees of 

 density and colour. Many shells, fossil plants, and branches of trees 

 are seen embedded in it. 



On Cap island, which is about a mile in circumference, a bed of coal 

 lying in slate clay, and pointing nearly due west so as to impinge upon 

 the Saddle island, is readily distinguished, and in the opposite direction 

 points with a slight curve towards the main land. 



Here at present our information stops; Colonel Hervey, who procured 

 these specimens by slight excavation during low water on the island, 



